Messages - PikMini

my life is so comfythe things you guys gripe abouti just don't get most of it honestly

you know when your eyes are warm and you're just too lazy to do anything. aw man! it's the WORST. i can't handle all this stress!

breathing

i have no idea how to breathe right

breathe

whenever i'm manually breathing, which happens... not infrequently, but i'll stop altogether sometimes for a while until my head hurts and i realize i wasn't breathing... just a tragedy. when will robot lungs become a thing?

holding arms above your heart (don't even attempt this one)

circulation minimum

ow

uncomfortable

capillary refill time maximum

need to re-roll a better character, because this one sucks

i'm glad gravity is a thing, but i might prefer floating around in spacei might live long enough for thatnot that it matters, i haven't been praying to science... i don't have enough gold stars saved up

(NOSE) BREATHINGwhen you have a deviated septum... i wish i had that nose surgery afterward.noses

C A L L U S E S on top of your feetyou aren't even an astronaut, but that's what happens when you sit around all day

i've played probably eight hours of this game, but i haven't made any progress! i can't even tell you what the game is about, because i get beat up by the villagers before i get far into the story. i'm trying to play without saving, so this might be my problem. it's somewhat of a mystery. there is a plague, or some secret, or some thing you must accomplish, but you have no idea what it is, so you must play the story and do some things. 10/10 description-it's a real survival game, so you'll be dying quite often. i'll try again tonight with saving...

apparently i have gastric dumping syndrome, so when i drink soylent it just bypasses my stomach. i stopped soylent, because i felt it happening as i drank the stuff, like a cold snake wiggling into your abdomen. i become hypovolemic and hypoglycemic as a result of the insulin dump and had fire-rrhea within one or two hours.

i pretty much knew all this at the time, but i was just too afraid of dying to push on. i only have nine days of soylent left, so i'll give it a shot.

wikipedia is my god:

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Gastric dumping syndrome, or rapid gastric emptying is a condition where ingested foods bypass the stomach too rapidly and enter the small intestine largely undigested. It happens when the small intestine expands too quickly due to the presence of hyperosmolar (having increased osmolarity) contents from the stomach. This causes symptoms due to the fluid shift into the gut lumen with plasma volume contraction and acute intestinal distention.[1] "Early" dumping begins concurrently within 15 to 30 minutes from ingestion of a meal.[1] Symptoms of early dumping include nausea, vomiting, bloating, cramping, diarrhea, dizziness, and fatigue. "Late" dumping happens one to three hours after eating. Symptoms of late dumping include weakness, sweating, and dizziness. Many people have both types. The syndrome is most often associated with gastric bypass (Roux-en-Y) surgery.

Rapid loading of the small intestine with hypertonic stomach contents can lead to rapid entry of water into the intestinal lumen. Osmotic diarrhea, distension of the small bowel (leading to crampy abdominal pain), and hypovolemia can result.

In addition, people with this syndrome often suffer from low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia, because the rapid "dumping" of food triggers the pancreas to release excessive amounts of insulin into the bloodstream. This type of hypoglycemia is referred to as "alimentary hypoglycemia."

tomorrow i'll try mixing solid oats into the soylent along with some salt. i have fiber gummies, so i'll chow down on a couple beforehand as well.

Check in with your doctor just to be sure things are good before you continue this.

i might end up doing that eventually if it persists

i think the tremendous portions of soylent that i initially had might have contributed, maybe i had excess glucose in my urine as a result of the big meals or something? and the bacteria just had a ball with that? i have no other problems, pains, and it was only on 2 occasions, so i'm not actually worried.

edit: okay, of course i'm worried, but not enough to visit the doctor just yet.

i have had a few worries here and there, and i always think i'm finally adjusted, when suddenly something new appears.

a few days back, and then yesterday, i've noticed correctly colored, but cloudy, urine. to make it worse, yesterday it stung somewhat. i have no disease which would normally cause this, so i'm hoping it was just some fluke soylent side-effect.

i stopped with the oatmeal, instead opting for some fruit thoughout the day. the oatmeal was only worsening the soylent gas. i plan on stopping the fruit and going 100% soylent after a while. no bowel problems at all anymore.

i also started to make soylent with added table salt and less water. i have been forced to spread the soylent out throughout the day, and i drink 3 meals now. this was after i self-diagnosed rapid gastric emptying ... it was very weird, very uncomfortable, and very painful. it was resolved with smaller meals.

i seem to be finally adjusted now. i started exercising near the intensity of when i was in bootcamp, so i hope to not gain much weight and instead become fitter. i feel pretty great... i'm really hoping others try soylent. i might re-order before the end of the month if things continue as smooth as they are now.

no more bowel problems after including a small bowl of oatmeal + orange in my diet, will from here on attempt just oatmeal, because oranges taste pretty good and i'm starting to enjoy this bland-tasting everything experience... the cardboard/cookiedough shake, mmm yummy

i discovered the best way to create my daily batch of soylent:

hot water into pitcher, then soylent powder and oil, shake for a minute, then add ice. the clumps are almost nonexistant now. i also pour with the pitcher barely open, to further strain clumps. very smooth and at the same time thick.

i've had a sort of dull headache for the past 2 days. it's not a headache, but it always feels weird starting at midday. i'm hoping it's the decreased sodium in the soylent diet, so i'll be swallowing some salty water starting today. going to start with half a teaspoon of tablesalt / 3g tablesalt (1000ish mg of sodium) for the next 2 days.

i weigh 144 lbs right now, i know the previous 156 was after drinking the morning soylent meal, but what the heck happened? i admit i haven't ever weighed myself throughout the day, but even then, 12 lbs seems a little extreme to be a normal fluctuation.

right now, i'm going to drink the rest of my soylent, some water, and then reweigh myself. will report back with the change.

update: HAHA WHAT

i now weigh 157 lbs, good lord, 13lbs of soylent and water account for the loss

update: nevermind. the scale had to have been off, but i left it recalibrate and repeatedly got 144 lbs, so i'm not sure what happened. it seems the soylent only weighs like 3lbs

soooo, yesterday, i drank the entire day's soylent at 1530 and was asleep near 2400... but starting at 2100, and for the next 3 hours, i had just about the most awful gas imaginable. but no indigestion, pain, hunger, or anything else i've read from other experiences

here are some pictures of today's soylent

1 day of soylent powder, the canola/fish oil

the soylent powder. when adding the oil, the soylent takes on a doughy look. i'm sure someone has baked soylent cookies because of this...

the pitcher/mixer, with half a day's soylent remaining. (around 2 small glasses) splitting it 50/50 works pretty nice. perhaps you can make out the chalkiness